Kay Fisher believes area's strong history can help guide its future

Kay Fisher has spent most of her life living in and loving Warren. Her first major community service project was helping to restore the historic Woods’ home.

Fisher believed that the house paid tribute to the medical accomplishments that the Woods’ brothers made to society, including the pioneering of chloroform for painless surgeries.

After this project, Fisher was hooked into community service.

She wanted to help her neighborhood and her community and sees The Raymond John Wean Foundation as integral to helping numerous small organizations gain seed money to launch their work.

“The biggest challenge that we have as a community is that we have to change our attitude,” she said. She believes that the community’s rebirth will require more than “a few small lightning bugs” and she hopes that others will come to realize the area’s many assets and work to bring positive change.

Fisher, the daughter of a former Warren mayor, said the area’s strong history should help to guide its future.